Quotes from book

The Savage Detectives

“We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?”

“I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.”

“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”

“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”

“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”

“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”

“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”

“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”

“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.”

“Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”